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Rh in the parish of Long Crendon : Chearsley and Lower Winchendon ; in the parish of Chilton : Dorton ; in the parish of Newport Pagnel : Little Linford ; in the parish of Eton : Wexham ; in the parish of Datchet : Fulmer ; in the parish of Stewkley : Litcote ; in the parish of Radclive : St. Michael's Radclive ; in the parish of Biddlesden : St. Margaret's Biddlesden ; in the parish of North Crawley : Little Crawley ; in the parish of Eton : Cippenham ; in the parish of Weston Turville : Lee and Brondes ; in the parish of Mursley: Salden ; in the parish of Hanslope : Castle Thorpe ; and in the parish of Aston Clinton : St. Leonard's, Aston.

St. Werburga's Chapel or Hermitage at Brill, the Chapel of SS. Stephen and Laurence at Chetwode, and the Chapels of Tattenhoe, Hedgerley, Petsoe and Okeney were free or independent as far back as they can be traced. This makes a total of thirty-three certainly in existence before 1291 ; but this probably falls far short of the full number, and some of those which are first mentioned in the fourteenth century may have been built and used much earlier. The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were an age of strange con- trasts ; of extraordinary generosity and reverence towards the Church, and of equally extraordinary violence and irreverence. There are a great many instances of personal violence towards the clergy and sacri-